These notes are primarily for the WEB MASTER.  However, they will give an idea of what went into - and "how" this site was (or is being) produced.

One large challenge was in producing a composite and "complete" class roster.  A second (technical) challenge was coming up with an individual page template file that would be consistent and used for creating a page for each of hundreds of individual classmates.

The first attempt at ROSTER BUILDING was by building a "draft" web page roster from the photos included in our 4th Class yearbook.  Unfortunately over 4 (or 5 actually) years of yearbooks it was seen that the yearbook photos for our Class were frequently incomplete for "whatever reason" i.e. photos of classmates were left out.  Also, the photos were incorrectly alphabetized and name captions listed for 4th class men were just last names and initials.  

I was provided 3 "Excel" spread sheets (in various forms and formats) presented as being "class roster/mailing/email" lists from our REUNION committee, and also a "Word" document - which appears to be a "Class Directory" produced from our 35th Reunion attendee registration forms, as well as several other forms and documents that were used for organizing and promoting prior reunions.

From this review we had (for our class) -
559 photos in the 64 yearbook
413 photos in the 65 yearbook
376 photos in the 66 yearbook
396 photos in the 67 yearbook
and, at that point, an undetermined number of our classmates who had "slipped" to '68 (or beyond) for graduation
397 names (on 2-"Excel" spreadsheets, in two different formats)
360 names on another "Excel" spreadsheet
and
121 names included in the "Word" document produced from our 35th Reunion registrations.

To resolve this dilemma, and arrive at our "final" / composite class roster ... we took one of the 397 name "Excel" spreadsheets, added fields for First name and middle initial, it had a field for last name (this for correct sorting sequence) and also added 5 fields as "flag fields" to indicate that a photo existed (OR DID NOT EXIST) in the 64, 65, 66, 67, or 68 yearbooks and proceeded to inventory photo's in each.  When the '64 through '67 photo inventory was completed and the list edited, and added to, for missing names, that then gave a source list to compare with photos in the 68 yearbook to identify our classmates whose graduation year slipped to '68.  This review also identified those who "joined" the class of '67 from prior classes, i.e. a new name and photo appearing in '66 or '67 who was not previously included in class photos in '64 or '65..  Names, as listed with the senior class yearbook, are the names used in the Web Site's - Class Roster Page.

From all of this review, and analysis,  we finally arrived at a properly alphabetized list containing 641 names of people considered to be "members" of the Class of 1967 and included as our CLASS ROSTER (obviously it does not include those who dropped out prior to :knob photos being made, but it most likely does include some who did drop out prior to knob year ending)..... and the CLASS ROSTER WEB PAGE was rebuilt.  

This "Excel" worksheet/composite list also includes 4 "friends of the Class of 1967" and  DONORS to the Class of 1967 SCHOLARSHIP FUND who are not listed in the CLASS ROSTER PAGE, but who will be honored as DONORS (or recipients) in a future web page..


PAINT SHOP PRO - for scanning and saving yearbook photo pages and activities pages.  These page scans were always saved in the loss less PSP file format.
      Class photo pages were scanned at 96 dpi and the activity pages at 150 dpi

PAINT SHOP PRO - was again used to "cut" senior photo caption images (to be used on the roster page), senior activities listing images, and each of the 4 or 5 years (or less) of the photos from each class year from the PSP format page scans and saved in a sub sub directory for each of the 641 classmates from the roster in a 25% reduced JPG format for publishing on individual web pages.  The file naming convention used was the individuals name with initials preceded with the yearbook year for photos or followed with either "caption" or "activities" for those images.  Prior to saving, each of the photo images were resized to height = 200 pixels for consistency i.e. cut, paste as new image, resize (as necessary), then save.

NETSCAPE COMMUNICATOR - was used for authoring all web pages

WS FTP95 LE - was used for all remote to host file maintenance